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Kokopelli
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posted August 07, 2017 03:50 PM
Dave;
You charge $200 a night for concerts.
For-The-Event-Of-Your-Lifetime charge $2,000.
A couple of takers and you've got a down-payment on one of those wiz-bang lazers you guys shoot !!!
And............the odds are that the takers would be AlGore liberal climate change types.
Liberals helping you buy (build) your next gun !!! There just ain't no downside to this shit. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Lonny
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posted August 07, 2017 03:51 PM
The local "for sale" adds were filled with generators after Y2K in these parts.
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NVWalt
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posted August 09, 2017 03:57 AM
Here ya go. I am directly in the path of totality on our place here in Tennessee and would gladly charge you an arm and a leg to set up a tent on the lower 40 to watch the eclipse. Creek and 100 yard covered range for rent also . Think about how that would enhance my retirement check.But alas, I am probably too late to advertise such a great deal and cash in on that cash cow...LOL Our roads here are pretty narrow compared to what I am used to in the west so I really hope it isn't all the hype it is fortold to be. But our paper and friends tell us to gas up and get our groceries now because they expect it all to be gone in a week..Ahhh life in a rural community. And gas went up past $2.00 gallon also. Bet it gets higher in a week.
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Leonard
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posted August 09, 2017 04:59 AM
I'm still trying to figure out how you wound up in Tennessee, from that part of Nevada, of which I am familiar, and of which I highly approve. (coyote hunting ain't half bad, you know?)
Throwing a dart at a map?
I say that because I often ponder moving out of this crummy state. I think mostly Arizona and eastern Nevada and even Wyoming and a few others while ruling out granola Oregon and Washington, but, but, Tennessee never popped into my head. Am I missing something?
Good hunting. El Bee
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NVWalt
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posted August 09, 2017 12:49 PM
Leonard, what you ARE missing is humidity and bugs and you can't just wonder over yonder hill and go hunting anytime you feel like it. I miss that the most.Wide open spaces, no people and that sense of freedom open spaces give you.
It's a long story how I got here and really not too interesting but I am here and will no doubt die here. I just hope in another year I will be at least a little more accustomed to the humidity. They told me it was HOT in Lost Wages when I went there building casinos and they were right, well, it's humid and moist here like living on the coast of Oregon or Washington. But it is beautiful anyways and the coyote hunting is like in western Washington.They are here but seeing them is the hard part in this jungle before they down wind you.
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earthwalker
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posted August 09, 2017 12:49 PM
Sounds like several groups came together and are going to close my road down the Friday before the eclipse. Totally in agreement. They are going to Stage 1 fire restrictions this coming Friday. No camp fires outside of campgrounds, no smoking outside of vehicle or bare dirt and so forth.
We are cotton dry and heavy fuel load right now.
Sneeze wrong or fart and you'll start a fire.
Now get all the snot noses back into school and things should slow down a little until all the hunts open and all the so called "Idaho Sportsman" start showing up.
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Dave Allen
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posted August 10, 2017 05:59 PM
Probably a damn fine idea to close the road. I'll be keeping a close eye out next week to see how things develop.
We'll see ?
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earthwalker
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posted August 18, 2017 03:36 AM
The county closed the road yesterday.
Felt stupid having to move the barrier to get out and to go home.
It was busy yesterday the road looked like a revolving door.
At least all the smoke moved out and the viewing was great!
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Dave Allen
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posted August 19, 2017 08:33 AM
Well there has been some hippie sightings. Other than that it's quite here ?
In fact it's almost spooky quite ? I'm @ work right now, which is right off the freeway, almost seems like there's less traffic than normal. Go figure ?
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earthwalker
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posted August 19, 2017 11:52 AM
One road to my west is like I-84 today! It's none stop. Any shape, size color of vehicle you want it's going by.
Watched a lot drive up to the road closed sign then stop and finally turn around and leave.
It isn't Monday yet.
Friend @ Cascade said in town it was a zoo yesterday but the highway was a little slow. Thought maybe the Fair and the starting of school would slow them down.
I'm just living way to far back in the past. When we had a million less idiots living in this state.
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Leonard
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posted August 20, 2017 08:27 AM
I guess tomorrow you folks get your fifteen minutes?
Let me just ramble a bit with something not even a little similar.
Did anybody notice how the Left has been using RACISM as an all purpose weapon, more so now than even months ago?
Everything's "Racism" and this latest brainstorm involves Confederate Flags. Walmart quit selling them but still sells Nazi flags and Sickle and Hammer Soviet flags. Then there are the Che Geverra teeshirts.
So, what's next, why of course, it's statues! Robert E. Lee has to come down from where he has been for (what) 150 years? It's stupid but did you see how they are manipulated our young, dumb and full of cum Millennials? To see these kids kicking torn down statues just illustrates how easy it is to control "people". They are running around like they really understand what the Civil War was about. What's that? Why, RACISM, of course.
The most stupid lie that 80%, maybe more of America believes was the cause and the reason for WHITE AMERICANS to kill each other! If you stop and think about it for a minute, 30,000, maybe 40,000 troops at Gettysburg are lined up, and facing death and maiming right across the meadow, and they are fighting right now because of slavery?
I think they are fighting for State's Rights and the right to succeed from the Union. Whether it says so anywhere in any document, I have no idea, but the southern states believed they freely entered into this UNION and by God, they could just as quickly withdraw from this union if they felt that they were being treated unfairly.
Never mind that Lefties today think they can quit the United States in California, they can't do the math and see a relationship. The SOUTH was wrong because they had slaves and that's it! OH, AND RACIST !
What it is is stupidity. To see these kids demanding the Jefferson Memorial to be torn down because he had slaves and so did Washington so he should be condemned also. I don't think so. These were great men, even if they were white and owned slaves and the Left is wrong to attempt to rewrite history.
It's just a way to paralyze Trump and his administration. And, the MEDIA is promoting it as much as they can. They won't be happy until Trump is impeached. Someone, somewhere needs to stand up and scream that this bullshit is wrong and everybody is going to suffer if this shit continues.
That's what I think. We aren't far from ANARCHY folks. You know what they say; all it takes is for a few good men to do NOTHING.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Lonny
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posted August 20, 2017 08:42 AM
On the news the other night, they were talking about the influx of people into Oregon and all the issues that it might cause...
What struck me, was they interviewed a lady hired two years ago by the city of Madras, OR to promote the eclipse! She has been planning and promoting this for two friggen' years. Sounds like she might have done her job well if the mass crowds arrive?
On one hand, you got the Gov of OR calling out the troops for an emergency situation and on the other you got cities trying to cash in on the deal and promoting it. Seems kinda like the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.
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Leonard
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posted August 20, 2017 10:58 AM
Uh oh! You people may be in for some well deserved criticism?
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In the Atlantic, Alice Ristroph laments the path of the total solar eclipse:
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon. The moon’s shadow will be about 70 miles wide, and it will race across the country faster than the speed of sound, exiting the eastern seaboard shortly before 3 p.m. local time. It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people.
Now, what are you Racists going to do about it?
Good hunting. El Bee
[ August 20, 2017, 11:01 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Moe
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posted August 21, 2017 06:17 AM
I was looking t the path for the eclipse and Atalanta, GA is in a good position for viewing so I think some black folks are going to get a good view.
I'm really getting fed up with the racist claims.
I saw some nitwit on TV talking about reparations. My view is this..... a whole lot of white folks fought a war and died to free these people. Who is going to pay back the families that lost fathers and sons in that war? Maybe we can call it a draw.
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Leonard
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posted August 21, 2017 07:57 AM
So, Moe. You really believe that all those white Union soldiers fought and died and were maimed, lost an arm or a leg or both because they felt so strongly about slavery? There were lots of "Abolitionists" that strongly felt that slavery was wrong, but the main reason they fought was because the South withdrew from the Union, and Lincoln didn't want to let them get away with it.
There were many issues, like the fact that the northern states had a substantial majority and could pass virtually any Bill that came up. All the South could do was vote "No" and lose. They had unequal representation because the representatives in Congress was determined by population and a Black only counted as 5/8ths of a person. They were never going to win on any issue, so they felt like they could form their own "Confederate States of America". Nothing in the fine print said that they could never withdraw? If there was such a thing, I don't know about it? Apparently, even now, California thinks they can withdraw from the Union, no harm done.
I agree that slavery was a huge issue. But was it THE issue? Right now, ask any man on the street and you will hear some tripe about "freeing the slaves". Brother against brother, father against son, willing to die, killed by cannon fire so the black man wold be free? Did white people "Love" blacks that much or did they pretty much not care one way or the other?
Right today, if the issue were to be re-argued, how many men would risk their lives to free ungrateful negroes? You wouldn't even get a fourth for Bridge! People would say, well, I voted for them, but I ain't going to join up and get kilt just to free the blacks....Fuck that!
Just think about it! What the hell was it, a million dead? I think it was by far the bloodiest war in our history? Something like 58,000 died in Vietnam, right? And, Slick Willy hides out in Canada. But, in the Civil War, I don't think people had a choice, an option? Everybody fought for their side. Not for or against the blacks, they fought for the SOUTH or for THE UNION.
I know I'm swimming upstream on this issue but freeing slaves might not have been what those guys were thinking, eyeball to eyeball on Pickett's Charge. Let's think about it and put yourself in their place, where most of them didn't own a slave, or that some of their best friends were black?
So, consider how the MEDIA tells us what to think. Even then. Gotta free those poor slaves; they get whipped every night! Too many issues where the main stream Media lies to us. Or, Obama says if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Did the Media question that statement?
Okay, you either believe this shit or you don't. I give up!
Good hunting. El Bee
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Dave Allen
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posted August 21, 2017 08:59 AM
I think you've really hit the nail on the head with those posts Leonard.
Ok partial eclipse now. It is kinda cool.
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Lonny
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posted August 21, 2017 07:35 PM
Well, did everybody survive the excitement and mayhem?
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NVWalt
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posted August 22, 2017 02:13 AM
Was a pretty neat eclipse here in Tellico Plains. Two and a half minutes of totality and we BBQed some pig and had a bash. Didn't bother going into town as I heard it was a zoo and I don't do people zoo's very well.
Leonard, I couldn't agree more with you on your asessment of the Civil(?) War. It wasn't about slaves it was about all of the above you have mentioned.
Watching the moons shadow gobble up the sun through the 12 incher was pretty neat and one I won't ever see again.
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Paul Melching
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posted August 22, 2017 04:55 AM
I was out filling my water hauler it got dark for a minute almost as if the moon passed between the earth and the sun! Then I realized it gets dark like that every evening around 7:30 or 8:00 .
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posted August 22, 2017 04:58 AM
Well said on the Civil War Leonard , we make it about slavery so we can feel noble. Who could feel good about killing that many people over states rights!
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Leonard
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posted August 22, 2017 07:06 AM
Thanks, Paul.
I did a term paper on the Civil War in college. Today and then, the average citizen doesn't have a clue about the reasons for war and how the North was taking extreme advantage of the southern states, in ways that were easily understood; Economics 101.
You know, Lincoln freed the slaves in the South via the Emancipation Proclamation. The North still had their slaves. Might have been a minor point, but at the time, nobody questioned his authority to do that.
Slaves were valuable property, for sure Jefferson thought so with the cute one he was banging. Do people go out and throw rocks at their new car, or any other valued property? I mean, everybody knows that these slaves were whipped and beaten on a daily basis, right? Just maybe, they were cared for as you would treat other things of value?
It's a very deep question, but consider this; are American Negros far better off than Africans, today? I really think that black people should consider themselves lucky to be here. Africans have a shit sandwich, in comparison. But statements like that will get white folks beaten to death with baseball bats while the Po Po will stand around and let it happen.
That Confederate Battle Flag meant something to southern people. In a way, it's like wearing your college sweatshirt. There is no valid reason for outlawing the damned flag! Southerners have eaten a lot of shit since the Civil War. Yeah, they lost but they still have pride in the cause, and the reason why they erect monuments.
The Lefties have convinced our low information citizens that it's okay to disrespect everything the South ever stood for, very much like NAZIS, only worse. It's all bullshit. They lost, but they deserve respect. When you lose a football game, the winning side doesn't cross the field and beat up the losers. Yet, they are still doing it 150 years after suffering a huge and bloody defeat, and they ain't ever going to live it down.... while these assholes trash their monuments.
This slavery issue is bogus. The country is doing everything possible to rectify everything, including bending over backwards, free stuff for black people, free money, free rent, free tuition, free food but it ain't enough. Reparations, maybe half a million each would quiet them down? No? Okay, make it a million and rich people can afford it. Tax the bastards. OK that million dollars is tax free, ain't it? Better be!
Until the Left quits agitating on all these social issues, the whole country is in deep trouble. It's disgusting. Trump might be a jerk, but he aint Clinton and thank God for that! Getting over Obama will take everything he can manage and the Left is going to fight him tooth and nail, hammer and Tong!
Somebody needs to step up to the plate and put an end to these bogus disruptions. You think the last Civil War was bloody? Just wait, this next one will be more better. Go ahead, keep agitating, Soros and Bloomberg! These two guys deserve to be hanging by their heels like Mussolini. And Obama and Clinton better hide out in St Barts 'til things cool off.
It's brewing up a storm. Somebody is going to be sorry. When you bring a gun to a baseball bat demonstration.
Good hunting. El Bee (end of rant)
edit: related:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450689/erasing-his tory-censoring-confederate-past-rewriting-memory-mob-vengeance
edit: related:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/22/no-chance-im-giving-up-my-stuff-in-the-name-of-equality/
[ August 22, 2017, 08:43 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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earthwalker
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posted August 22, 2017 11:37 AM
Was in the 98% area. It effected my eyes for a while. It was a weird feeling big time.
300-400 cars went up the main local dirt road.
Then the second it was done is was a mass escape back out.
The cars were stopped from Hwy 44 back to a couple of miles from the turn off to the lookout. Took them over 2 hours or more to clear out.
NO fires thank goodness.
Most obeyed the road closed sign and those that didn't were sic'd on with the LEO. They didn't like it maybe next time they'll think twice. I doubt it. They seem to think signs are someone else not them.
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Dave Allen
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posted August 22, 2017 06:53 PM
Yup, it was a weird feeling. It got quiet @ work & was able to slip out for quick looks.
Was outside when the temp dropped. got cool & the total eclipse came. It was awesome !! everything was @ a standstill in my surrounding's. Spooky almost ?
I would like to do over again. Knowing, what, I know now. Wouldn't drive cross country though.
Traffic wasn't really an issue around here ?
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